Detections
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CVE-2015-0856

high

Description

daemon/Greeter.cpp in sddm before 0.13.0 does not properly disable the KDE crash handler, which allows local users to gain privileges by crashing a greeter when using certain themes, as demonstrated by the plasma-workspace breeze theme.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.html

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-Announcement

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-11-24

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00175